“The arts of existence make one’s existence into a work of art.” -George Kateb, Patriotism and Other Mistakes   This weekend, the foreign ministers of Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina published a bizarrely Periclean paean to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine. The good ministers, to their credit, envision a world where horrors such as … Continue reading Craving Peace: Aesthetic Ideals and Idealism